Demigods rejoice! Disney announced today that a Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series is coming to Disney+, with books author Rick Riordan executive producing and co-writing the pilot script. In the announcement, Disney promised this new adaptation will be “closely aligned with” the beloved children’s adventure book series.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians follows the coming of age journey of Percy, a boy with ADHD and dyslexia who doesn’t understand why he is always at the center of trouble, whether at school or at home with his doting mother and horrible stepfather. After a disturbing incident on a field trip gets him kicked out of yet another school, Percy discovers he is a demigod and his learning disabilities are actually divine powers that make him a more capable fighter and fluent in Ancient Greek. His father, until now totally absent from Percy’s life, is an Olympian Greek God, who resides with the rest of the ancient pantheon in a secret abode above the Empire State Building.

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For his own safety, Percy has to go live at Camp Half-Blood, a magical summer camp for other demigod children where they can learn to fight monsters and harness their godly powers in the relative seclusion of eastern Long Island, New York. Across five books and several spin-off series, readers follow wise-cracking Percy and his friends on quests all over a United States where myth and legend linger just beneath the surface, killing monsters and saving the gods while falling in love and suffering the indignities of puberty.

The series will be produced by 20th Century Studios, known as 20th Century Fox before Disney acquired it. 20th Century was also behind the 2010 film adaptation of the series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, and it’s 2013 sequel Sea of Monsters. Directed by Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) and starring Logan Lerman (3:10 to Yuma) in the title role, the film ultimately disappointed fans of the books with its loose adaptation of the plot. Riordan was not involved creatively in those films, having never worked in film before. In a 2018 piece reflecting on the film’s development and production, Riordan wrote, “Once I saw the final script and saw what they were doing on the set, I realized I had to step away for my own peace of mind.” Stepping in as executive producer and penning the pilot episode seems to signal Riordan is keen to maintain creative control of the franchise this time around, and as Disney Hyperion’s top-selling author he likely has the pull and creativity to excel in this new medium.

Disney leadership also appears to understand that their series will be the first to follow a massively disappointing prior attempt at getting one of the most successful children’s books franchises on the big screen. The President of Disney Branded Television, Ayo Davis, said, "With Rick Riordan, Jon Steinberg and Dan Shotz leading our creative team, we're deep into creating a compelling TV series worthy of the heroic mythological characters that millions of Percy Jackson readers know are well-worth caring about, and we're eager to invite Disney+ audiences into stories that are true to the blockbuster franchise and full of anticipation, humor, surprise, and mystery."

While not naming names, Disney also announced that casting for Percy Jackson and the Olympians has already begun. If the series follows the books as closely as promised, the first season will see 12-year-old Percy with his best friends Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena, and Grover the satyr on a quest across the country to recover Zeus’ missing lightning bolt.

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